Film work as animal trainer and wrangler includes the comedy Seems Like Old Times (1980), the comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986, with Alan Ruck), the comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987, with Michael McKean and Richard Herd), the comedy Christmas Vacation (1989), the television horror film Strays (1991), the thriller To Protect and Serve (1992, with Jessie Lawrence Ferguson), the drama The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the crime drama The Minus Man (1999, working with Gary Gero), the drama The Last Producer (2000), the short drama Katherine (2002, with Sierra Pecheur), and the comedy Anger Management (2003).